Questions: Make a note for each question below using these rules: 1. If you know the answer, reply to the question. 2. If you don’t know the answer, write down where and how you will find out the answer. 3. If it is a question that you will not have an answer to until you are in the family stay, write FS as your answer.
What are my questions about the family stay? They may include: 1) Will I live in a city or the country? 2) How many people will be in my host family? 3) Will my host family speak a little English? 4) Will my host family accept me? 5) Will my host family understand me? 6) What will I do every day? 7) What will I do in the evening? 8) When will I get information about my host family? 9) Will my host siblings be my age? 10) What will I eat during the home stay?
Now imagine what your host family's questions might be. Can you answer their questions?
1) Does our U.S. student speak our language? 2) Will he or she understand us? 3) Will he or she like our home? 4) Do we have to try to make food that he or she eats at home in the U.S.? 5) Do we have to bring them to visit lots of sites? 6) Will our U.S. student be lively or quiet? 7) Will he or she accept our way of life? 8) Will he or she adapt to our culture?
Do you wish you could answer differently to any of these questions? If so, why? What will you do if your families expectations don't match yours?
In the target language: What questions do you want to ask your host family when you arrive?
Individual time needed: 60 minutes
Questions: Make a note for each question below using these rules:
1. If you know the answer, reply to the question.
2. If you don’t know the answer, write down where and how you will find out the answer.
3. If it is a question that you will not have an answer to until you are in the family stay, write FS as your answer.
What are my questions about the family stay? They may include:
1) Will I live in a city or the country?
2) How many people will be in my host family?
3) Will my host family speak a little English?
4) Will my host family accept me?
5) Will my host family understand me?
6) What will I do every day?
7) What will I do in the evening?
8) When will I get information about my host family?
9) Will my host siblings be my age?
10) What will I eat during the home stay?
Now imagine what your host family's questions might be. Can you answer their questions?
1) Does our U.S. student speak our language?
2) Will he or she understand us?
3) Will he or she like our home?
4) Do we have to try to make food that he or she eats at home in the U.S.?
5) Do we have to bring them to visit lots of sites?
6) Will our U.S. student be lively or quiet?
7) Will he or she accept our way of life?
8) Will he or she adapt to our culture?
Do you wish you could answer differently to any of these questions? If so, why?
What will you do if your families expectations don't match yours?
In the target language: What questions do you want to ask your host family when you arrive?